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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: simple multitasking examples
Summary: try working while you format
Message-ID: <386@antares.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 02:45:49 GMT
References: <3031@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <603NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> <1558@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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On my Amiga, I never have to stop what I am doing in order to format disks.
On the AT&T PC at work, formatting and backups generally mean wasted time.
Of course, I can pop up something, but the format stops while whatever is
on the screen. Only Amiga... :-)

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